Heybridge

[HelenC]

So, can someone please give me the low down from Saturday?

Thanks!

 

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[Mark (Flag) Braintree]

I think you might have to wait till Tuesday, it looks like only EFM the Firm and Rob the Saint log on from home, the others probably only have a computer at work.

 

Only been a couple of posts on here since Thursday

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Either that or it was just as good as the scoreline suggests

[Mark (Flag) Braintree]

Who did you go and watch, I have read Zealster goes to Cambridge now?

 

You the Voice?

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I was at St.Albans v Heybridge

[Mark (Flag) Braintree]

Oh right, was you too pissed to remember what went on then. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

 

I expected someone to have replied to the girl.

[Rob_the_Saint]

I don't know what 'after match activity' went on, Mark, I go home as soon as that final whistle blows.

 

The match itself was not memorable. Adam Parker stood out as a different class to the rest, wonder where we would be if he'd been with us all season?

[Mark (Flag) Braintree]

Was that Adam's debut for you then?

[Rob_the_Saint]

Home debut. Hit the bar with a volley from 25 yards and missed a sitter in the final minute <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

[GHA EFM]

Helen. The match report on the front page of the website sums it up well. If not, try the NLP

 

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[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I went home straight away as well

Was there some after match activity then?

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

For those of you that haven't realised there is a website (I've know about it for a few weeks now <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />) Here is what they say!

 

St Albans City's first clean sheet in the league for 23 games will be scant reward from a game they should have won. City held the honours in the first half against a sluggish looking Heybridge, Adam Parker being the closest to scoring with a 25-yard bombshell that came crashing back off the bar. At the other end George Clark had to react quickly to tip away a long range effort and in another attack an attempted clearance from a Saints defender struck the upright.

 

The second half was more even but goal-scoring opportunities were still few and far between. Declan Perkins nearly got on the end of a Richard Gough cross and another long-range effort by Heybridge brought out a fine save from Clark but the miss of the game was reserved for the final few minutes. A long free-kick by George Clark was headed on by Steve Watts only for Adam Parker to inexplicably shoot wide from eight yards when left with only the goalkeeper to beat.

[Northern Monkey]

only for Adam Parker to inexplicably shoot wide from eight yards when left with only the goalkeeper to beat.

 

as I recall he well scuffed his shot, so maybe that explains it!

[Rob_the_Saint]

Ah, that would explain it! I reckon he had one eye on the linesman expecting him to raise his flag for yet another highly dubious offside decision.

[Midweeksaint]

My nine-year old summed it up half way through the second half when he turned to me and said "I can see why they are giving free tickets away". Don't think he'll be rushing back to CP!

[JKiF]

 

 

fair point

but then when i was his age i was used to watching first division football, eh

 

 

 

[herts blue]

Indeed. I didn't want to sound harsh, but if someone wants to watch the world's finest, and top skills and performances all the time, then they should get a comfy armchair and a Premiership Plus ticket (and let's face it, many have decided that's how the game should be enjoyed). If you want to enjoy the other side of the game, warts and all, and get behind your local side, accepting it won't always be pretty, but that it can still be exciting (and that's a different debate) then Clarence Park, or wherever, is for you. Personally I'm starting to find watching the same overpaid players and teams, quality though they are, on TV every weekend, in games whose results really don't interest me, increasingly tedious. I definitely found the pitched battle mascerading as a football match at Brisbane Road on Easter Monday, devoid of any close skill or finesse, and containing some of the finest examples of the 2 footed challenge I think I've seen, infinitely more enjoyable.

[AFF]

Hi herts blue.

 

Who plays at Brisbane Road?

 

Oh, one more small thing, HB. If you are who I think you are, you have a rudimentary knowledge of the English language and you might be able to assist me. Here is a sentence from a low-budget small readership periodical that caught my eye at the week-end and I wonder if you could explain why it isn't. A sentence, that is:

 

"Not sure that we'd have seen quite that reaction before Christmas."

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

It's a bit like saying I won't go and watch that local indie band I'd perfere to stay at home and watch my Oasis DVD ....... erm!

[herts blue]

It makes sense. We'd have reacted differently had the event occurred before Christmas. No problem.